The subseries consists of the central registry of administrative and operational files used by the Attorney General from 1917 until 1928, including some files transferred from the previous central registry system.
The subseries includes files pertaining to legislation, cases, and subjects regarding:
Houses of public accommodation, adoptions, Agents of the Attorney General, Alberta and Great Waterways Railway, official assignees, the Attorney General, the Department of the Attorney General, Auctioneers, the Provincial Auditor, automobiles, aviation;
Banks, bankruptcy, beverage tax, bills of sale, Board of Commerce, bonded manufacturers, bonding companies, bonuses, and brands;
City of Calgary, the Canadian Law Book Company, Canadian National Railways, Canadian Pacific Railway, Carswell Company, cemeteries, chartered accountants, neglected children, children of unmarried parents, child protection, the Civil Service Commissioner, coal mines, Commissioners for Oaths, companies, land-holding congregations, constables, cooperatives, coroners, corporate taxation, criminal code, and criminal prosecutions;
Dairy producers, debt adjustment, dental association, deportation, detectives, divorce, domestic animals, Dominion (federal) government, drainage, and drought areas;
Early closing, City of Edmonton, Edmonton Police Service, railways in Edmonton, efficiency officers, the Employment Bureau, and exemptions;
Factories, farmers, fences, fire prevention, foreclosures and sales, foreign companies, forfeited weapons, legal forms, freight rates, and fruit company investigations;
Game, gaols (jails) and prisons, garnishee proceedings, gas companies, gasoline taxation, general inquiries, grain futures taxation (Manitoba), and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway;
Hail insurance, highways, hospitals, and herds;
Immigration, implement contracts, Indian Act (Dominion/federal), insanity and the administration of the estates of insane persons (including returned soldiers), insurance, and irrigation districts;
Judicature and justices of the peace;
King’s Counsel and the King’s Printer;
Labour, land titles, law books, legal profession, legislation, City of Lethbridge, liquor, livestock pools, agricultural loans, local improvement, and Lord’s Day observance;
Maintenance orders, marriage, masters and servants (employment claims), mechanic’s liens, medical profession, mental defectives, military uniforms, mine owner’s tax, mines, Minimum Wage Board, miscellaneous collections and accounts, missing persons, Mother’s Allowance, and motor vehicles;
Naturalization, notaries public; and noxious weeds;
Orders-in-Council;
Partnerships, pharmaceuticals, poisons, police magistrates, pool rooms, pound districts, disposition of prisoners, produce merchants, Alberta Provincial Police, Provincial Secretary, Public Administrator, public health, public utilities commission, and Public Works Department;
Railways, recommendations and appointments, restaurants, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.), and rural municipalities;
School assessment, schools, security fraud investigation, seed grain relief, slot machines tax, small debts, soldiers’ settlement, steam boilers, stock inspectors, stray animals, succession duties, suggested legislation, and superannuation;
Tax recovery, taxation, taxation of railway lands and railway companies, Telephones Department, theatres, threshers’ liens, translation of statues, trust companies, and towns including Bassano, Blairmore, Bow Island, Brooks, Camrose, Cardston, Carmangay, Castor, Claresholm, Coleman, Coronation, Edson, Gleichen, Granum, Hardisty, High River, Innisfail, Lacombe, Macleod, Magrath, Morinville, Nanton, Okotoks, Olds, Pincher Creek, Ponoka, Raymond, Stettler, Stony Plain, Taber, Tofield, Vegreville, and Wetaskiwin;
Unearned increment, and the University of Alberta;
Venereal diseases, veterinary surgeons, villages, vital statistics, and volunteers and reservists;
Wheat Board, Wheat Pool, women’s institutes, women’s rights, the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and the Workmen’s Compensation Board.
The subseries also includes two copies of the "Proceedings of the Convention of Sheriffs and Clerks of the Courts of Alberta," 1917.
